Featured Publications

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Estimating rare disease prevalence and costs in the USA: a cohort study approach using the Healthcare Cost Institute claims data

November 25, 2024

Estimating rare disease prevalence and costs in the USA: a cohort study approach using the Healthcare Cost Institute claims data

Relationship of abundant microbial species with the risk of higher severity in infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis.

Integrated relationship of nasopharyngeal airway host response and microbiome associates with bronchiolitis severity

November 25, 2024

Bronchiolitis is a leading cause of infant hospitalizations but its immunopathology remains poorly understood.

Distribution of study participants by age and health outcome. (a) colors in all subplots reflect health status of groups as provided in the legend of subplot a. The sample population is not uniform for age ranges, with a higher proportion of older participants falling into the severe group. (b) age has a strong association with health outcomes (p-value = 0.001). (c) BMI is not associated with health outcomes (p-value = 0.1488). For assessing the association of age and gender with the health outcome status,

Metabolite, protein, and tissue dysfunction associated with COVID‑19 disease severity

November 25, 2024

Proteins are direct products of the genome and metabolites are functional products of interactions between the host and other factors.

HAllAgram for block-wise associations.

High-sensitivity pattern discovery in large, paired multiomic datasets

November 25, 2024

We present a novel framework which integrates hierarchical hypothesis testing with FDR correction to reveal linear and non-linear relationships among data.

Chart showing how aspirin affects the relationship between time after hospitalization and probability of survival.

Association of Early Aspirin Use With In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With Moderate COVID-19

November 25, 2024

Prior studies suggest aspirin may be associated with reduced mortality in high-risk patients with COVID-19, but patients with moderate COVID-19 are not studied.

546 Therapeutic beta-lactam dosages and broad-spectrum antibiotics are associated with short-term reductions in microbial richness and beta-diversity

November 25, 2024

People with cystic fibrosis have morbid pulmonary exacerbations. Antibiotics are common, yet the beta-lactam doses administered are less than half the time.

Host taxonomy determines the composition, structure, and diversity of the earthworm cast microbiome under homogenous feeding conditions

November 25, 2024

Host evolutionary history is a key factor shaping the earthworm cast microbiome, although its effect can be shadowed by the earthworm’s diet.

Taxonomic composition of bacteriomes. Venn diagrams representing the core unique and shared microbiomes in cows faecal material and milk samples, and mouse faecal material and mammary tissues. Bacterial species detected in A cows faecal material, B cows milk, C mouse faecal material and D mouse mammary tissues. E Unique and shared bacterial species in CM, and F unique and shared bacterial species in H metagenomes of both cows and mice. Bacterial species shared in cow and mouse mastitis

Induction of mastitis by cow-to-mouse fecal and milk microbiota transplantation causes microbiome dysbiosis and genomic functional perturbation in mice

November 25, 2024

To understand the host-tropism phenomena of bovine-tropic mastitis microbiomes, we developed a cow-to-mouse mastitis model.

Differential expression of single-cell RNA-seq data using Tweedie models

November 25, 2024

To model the technological variability in cross-platform scRNA-seq data, here we propose to use Tweedie generalized linear models.

The Hi-C contact heat maps obtained after manual correction of genome assemblies. A, A. coluzzii AcolMOP1. B, A. arabiensis AaraD3. From left to right in each heat map, chromosome X, chromosome 2 (2R+2L),  chromosome 3 (3R+3L). The heat maps were produced by JBAT.

Chromosome-level genome assemblies of the malaria vectors Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles arabiensis

November 25, 2024

We produced chromosome-level genome assemblies for A. coluzzii and A. arabiensis using Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology and Hi-C scaffolding approach.

charts showing results of the study

Impact of Antibiotics on the Lung Microbiome and Lung Function in Children With Cystic Fibrosis 1 Year After Hospitalization for an Initial Pulmonary Exacerbation

November 25, 2024

The purpose of this study was to evaluate changes in the microbiome and lung function in people with CF over 1 year after an initial pulmonary exacerbation.

LDA score and relative frequency (inlet) of differentially abundant enriched pathways in the control and treatment groups of the Mencía must (A) and wine (B). Bios: biosynthesis; DUA: degradation/utilization/assimilation; GPME: generation of precursor metabolites and energy; MM: macromolecule modification.

Integrated Fertilization with Bagasse Vermicompost Changes the Microbiome of Mencía Must and Wine

November 25, 2024

Grape marc, or bagasse, is a byproduct of wine production that can be vermicomposted and used as organic fertilizer, which improve grape yields and wine quality